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Lifelong passion for science and nature led John Pierce Wise Sr. to study how metals cause lung cancer

February 4, 2022

John Pierce Wise, professor in the UofL Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, has studied the connection between exposure to metals and cancer for nearly three decades.

UofL researchers advocate clinical trials for CBD in COVID-19 treatment

January 24, 2022

An interdisciplinary team of researchers from several institutions headed by the University of Chicago and including the University of Louisville has found evidence that cannabidiol (CBD), a product of the cannabis plant, can inhibit infection by

New gene therapy for heart failure developed by UofL researchers

January 24, 2022

A UofL research team has refined a process in which specific genes administered to heart muscle cells stimulate the cells to divide, with the goal of restoring heart function following a heart attack. Tamer M.A.